Word: complex
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...President needs no authority but his own to call out either the National Guard or the Army. It is doubtful, however, if troops would be very effective. Though the Army has its own postal operation to handle mail for servicemen, few soldiers have any experience in the complex task of operating a postal system. In addition, the presence of troops, technically acting as strikebreakers, increases the possibility of violence in a strike that was peaceful in its initial phase...
...dilemma is a complex one. While postal workers?and many other public employees?are undeniably underpaid, government's first obligation is to protect the economy and maintain essential public services. The right to strike is an important weapon in labor's arsenal. But strikes against government?whether local, state or federal?not only endanger society but also weaken popular confidence in government and ultimately degrade the government itself...
Dean May's committee on coresidential living issued a complex decision yesterday where by up to five Harvard Houses, chosen by lottery-lucky Cliffies, will go coed...
...closed in seven days. I had no concept of 'career' or any of that shit. There were all very personal questions that I asked. My questions were so similar at age eighteen to everyone else's questions that there was a great deal of projection. My problems were less complex in those days. There was a lot of me trying to find myself as a writer-a terrible identity crisis. Most of the early plays were very dense and very terrible. But the ones before that were funnier...
...reasons for this persistent bias are complex. Part of it is due to the particular skills the industry requires; part to the fact that the industry's greatest expansion came at the time when hiring discrimination was an accepted practice. But whatever the reasons, the results are oppressively clear. As the EEOC's chairman, William Brown, told a meeting of 115 large utility companies in 1969, the utilities have had "the worst equal employment record of all industry groupings in America." The evidence, Brown said, "will graphically demonstrate that the most effective methods of discrimination and exclusion are being practiced...